Whales and Dolphins and Land...Oh my!

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

June 23, 2010So the title pretty much
sums up my last 3 days! I'll start from today and back track from
there...yesterday we saw land!!!! It was the first land I have seen in
the past 8 days so we were all pretty excited when the tip of Africa
came into view and shortly after that (and after convincing our
professor to let us out early!) we sailed through the Straight of
Gibraltar and were able to see the tip of Spain on one side of boat and
Africa of the other!!! It was so windy though! I would wait until a huge
gust of wind and jump into the air and would end up at least a foot
behind from where I started lol.

Other
than that and classes I have been able to see Dolphins and whales this
week too! We were all eating dinner one night when someone jumped up and
ran to the window yelling so naturally we all followed and saw at least
30 dolphins near the ship jumping away together through the waves...it
was an incredible sight! Then the following day while eating dinner out
on the back deck of the ship someone told us to look out in the distance
and there were whale spouts shooting out of the water! We saw it
probably 15 to 20 times before he disappeared but it was still pretty
cool!

Lastly
we are in our first port tomorrow! We are docking in Barcelona, Spain
tomorrow morning and after listening to a Spanish poet for a short time
on the boat for one of my classes my friends and I are excited to spend
the next 4 days walking around and exploring Barcelona! While in
Barcelona I am also hoping to find my bag as well...I have all my
fingers crossed that my bag will be there patiently waiting for me but
any prayers towards its safe arrival and our joyous reunion are being
graciously accepted! Hope everyone from home is doing great and can't
wait to hear from you all!